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Course Title: Advanced Placement U.S. History Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 104310 Term(s) Offered: Full Year
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Honors Themes in World Open to Grades: 11
History with an 80% or higher or completion
of AP European History or teacher
recommendation
Requirement(s): Students are required to complete the designated Advanced Placement exam at their own
expense (2020-2021 cost $95).
Career Cluster(s): Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security
Education and Training Manufacturing
Government and Public Administration Transportation, Distribution and Logistics
Description: AP US History is a year-long high school course which is designed to be a rough equivalent to a freshman
college survey course in American History. Topics of study range from pre-Columbian American societies to the role of
the US in the post 9/11 world. Class time is spent examining, through various methods, essential questions and the
frameworks in the study of American History. All seven themes of history including Identity,
Work/Exchange/Technology, Peopling, Politics and Power, Americans in the World, Environment and Geography, and
Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture are addressed throughout the course. Students are expected to read the course textbook,
interpret primary source readings, and examine the interpretations of scholars on specific events and trends. College
level writing is considered a high priority in this class. Writing at this level includes detailed note-taking, position papers,
and research papers. Assessing student learning is accomplished through College Board style multiple choice tests,
Document Based Questions (DBQs) and Free Response Questions (FRQs) will be used along with in-class discussions and
homework assignments in order to measure success in the interpretation of primary and secondary sources. The goal of
the course is to foster a broad knowledge of American History, increase interest in further study of history, and prepare
students for the College Board Exam.

Course Title: Advanced Placement Microeconomics Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 104515 Term(s) Offered: Full Year
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Honors US History: Twentieth Open to Grades: 11, 12
Century to the Present with a 90% or higher
or completion of AP US History with an 80%
or higher or teacher recommendation
Requirement(s): Students are required to complete the designated Advanced Placement exam at their own
expense (2020-2021 cost $95).

Career Cluster(s): Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Human Services
Architecture and Construction Information Technology
Business Management and Administration Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security
Education and Training Manufacturing
Finance Marketing
Government and Public Administration Science, Technology, Engineering and
Hospitality and Tourism Mathematics
Transportation, Distribution and Logistics
Description: AP Microeconomics is designed to give students a thorough understanding of the principles of economics
that apply to the functions of individual decision makers, both consumers and producers, within the economic system.
The course places emphasis on the nature and functions of product markets and includes the study of factor markets and
of the role of government in promoting greater efficiency and equity in the economy. The course is fast-paced. Students
will be required to complete a wide range of readings, analyze graphical and statistical information, sketch graphs, and
take detailed notes. Assessment strategies will mirror the AP Microeconomics Exam and provide insight into the
student's ability to grasp and demonstrate knowledge in an intellectual style similar to a college classroom. The course
will have an intense workload, reading schedule, and the material far exceeds that covered in a regular economics
classroom. This course is the equivalent of an introductory college course in microeconomics.

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